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Two interesting stats have caught my eye this week: Fraudsters are costing the UK an estimated £73billion a year (National Fraud Authority, NFA) Cybercrime has now become the second most commonly reported economic crime affecting companies in the financial services sector (PWC) While counter-fraud groups such as the NFA’s ‘Fighting Fraud Togeth...

NFC contactless payments, and P2P mobile payments are fast gaining momentum in the payments world. Banks, retailers, network operators, amongst others are all rushing for land grab, rolling out new NFC-enabled cards, mobile wallets and mobile phones for us to use in our daily lives. It’s fantastic that we are embracing this technology, and I truly...

I have just finished the morning sessions of ISITC in Boston. A great day so far. Lots of concern of expanding regulations, complexity,nchanges from Principles to rules based. All of this makes for th...

In the UK and Australia, account keeping fees are nothing new. In the US, however, since the introduction of the Durbin amendment, many US banks have been moving to monthly fees on checking accounts (...

It’s a new, exciting era for Trojan builders. The mobile space in 2012 is a virginal, unchartered territory that attracts the talent and creativity of black hatters and malware writers like moths to a...

Innovation Inside - Email on the Edge The Technology Lever Deloitte’s Center for the Edge recently published the 2011 Shift Index, which confirms an unsettling long term downward trend: publicly trade...

Personal Finance Management (PFM) is one of the hottest topics for banks today. Some of the banks are searching for the best vendor while others have already implemented PFM. Several banks are evaluat...

In the Times business section in the UK today, Andrew Haldane, the Financial Stability Director for the Bank of England was quoted as suggesting that we are entering a phase where the banking sector i...

After 5 weeks of extenuating negotiations, with dramatic scenes entries and bumpy price rides on the stock market, the negotiations between Temenos and Misys seem to have come to an end, as it was ann...

The new iPad just launched to the usual hype, anticipation and fanfare. Every time a new Apple product comes off the assembly line, it gets put under the biggest magnifying glass imaginable as crowds ...